Updating Time Zone when Windows Changes Time Zones

Jimmy Ho

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posted 8 years ago

I've noticed that if I go onto my Windows machine and change the time zone, the time zone returned by my Java application (which has been running this whole time) returns the prior time zone. I have to restart the Java application for the change to take effect.

Is there any way to have the JRE/Java re-load the time zone information from the Windows operating system without having to restart my JRE?

FYI, I'm on JDK 1.5_17, and the servers I run it on use mostly Windows 2000, though I've noticed this happens on Windows XP as well.

(It's more efficient for the JVM to just get the time zone when it starts up. The probability that the time zone will change while the application is running is so tiny, it's not worth the cost of getting it every single time the default time zone is required. You weren't planning on making a habit of changing your machine's time zone, were you?)